Former Clarke University bookstore manager sentenced to prison

The former bookstore manager at an eastern Iowa school is going to prison. James Spaulding pleaded guilty last December to mail fraud and filing a false tax return.

The 35-year-old Spaulding was the bookstore manager for Clarke University in Dubuque when authorities say, between 2011 and 2012, he defrauded the school of nearly $319,000. The scheme involved a fake book company Spaulding established with a friend.

Spaulding was sentenced on Monday to four years and nine months in prison and was ordered to pay restitution